¹⁶ As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.^(A)

¹⁶ For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh,^(A) the lust of the eyes,^(B) and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.

⁴ Love is patient,^(A) love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.^(B)

³⁰ If I must boast, I will boast^(A) of the things that show my weakness.^(B)

¹⁴ May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,^(A) through which^[a] the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.^(B)